60 THE PALMS OF BRITISH INDIA ANrI> CKYLON
ILLUSTRATION.—The photograph on Plate XII A, taken, by
the Rev. M. Maier, S. J., shows several specimens of the Low
Ground Rattan growing in the Victoria Gardens of Bombay.
The position of the leaves an<l the greater number of leaf-
segments af once distinguish this species from the Dwarf Ground-
Rattan on Plate XIII A. The plants aj*e about 5 feet high,
4. COCCOTHPINAX SARGENT, EOT. GAZKTTE,
XXVII, 87 <1899).
{The name was given in allusion to the berry-like fruit.)
Thinwajr Endiioher G«*n. PI. 253 (in part) 188&—Meissner
Gen. 357 (in part).—Benth. and Hook. Gen. Ill, 9JJO.—Drude
Engl. and Prantl. Pflanzenf. II, pt. Ill, 34 (sect. Kuthrinax).—
Baillon Hist PI. XIII, 317 (exel. sect Hcwithrinax). Sargent
Silva N. Am. X. 49. (sect. EutJirinax).
Small unarmed trees, with simple or clustered stems or rarely
stemless. Leaves orbicular, or truncate at the base, pale or
silvery white on the lower surface, divided into narrow obliquely-
folded segments, acuminate and divided at the apex; rhachises
narrow; Hgules thin, free, erect, concave, pointed at the apex;
petioles compressed, slightly rounded and ridged above and
below, thin and smooth on the margins, gradually enlarged
below into elongated sheaths of coarse fibres forming an open
network covered while young* by thick hoary tomentum* Spadix
interfoliar, paniculate, shorter than the leaf-stalks, its primary
branches furnished with numerous short slender pendulous
flower-bearing secondary branches; spathes"numerous, papery,
cleft at the apex. Flowers solitary, perfect, joiaited on elongated
slender pedicels; perianth cup-shaped, obscurely lobed; stamens
9-12, inserted on the b&se of the perianth, with subulate filaments
enlarged and barely unitod at the base, and oblong anthers;
ovary 1-celled, narrowed into a slender style, crowned by a
funnel-formed oblique stigma; ovule basilar, erect Fruit a
subglobose berry raised on the thickened torus of the flower,
with thick juicy black flesh. Seed free, erect, depressed-globose,
with a thick hard vertically-grooved shell deeply infolded in
the bony albumen; hilum basilar, minute; raphe hidden in the
folds of the seed-coat; embryo lateral or apical.
Species about 15.